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"I would say that the 1st Edition Fossil cards were much more accessible than Base and probably on par with Jungle," said Pratte.īut Fossil 1st Edition cards are still relatively tough to track down today. He even remembers having a few 1st Edition Fossil cards as a kid. Pratte believes that 1st Edition Fossil cards were distributed more widely than 1st Edition Base. 7 Current Finest, 1999 Pokémon Fossil 1st Edition set on the PSA Set Registry. "Unless you were waiting outside of a trading card shop on the day these sets were released, buying 1st Edition booster packs or boxes was near impossible since they would all practically sell out that same day," said Jobin Abraham, who owns the No. The 1st Edition packs and booster boxes are clearly marked with the "Edition 1" stamp. There were three different Fossil 1st Edition pack wrappers that highlighted different Pokémon - Aerodactyl, Zapdos, and Lapras. Holographic cards were inserted in approximately one of every three packs.
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The Fossil cards were available in 11-card booster packs that consisted of seven common cards, three uncommon cards, and one rare card.
POKEMON FIRST EDITION BOOSTER BOX SERIES
The most common explanation for the Fossil series having two less singles is that Mew, who was featured on a holographic card in the Japanese Fossil series, was not included in the English offering.īulbapedia, an online Pokémon encyclopedia, indicates that the Pokémon Fossil 1st Edition cards were originally slated to be released "around January 2000," but the release date was bumped up to October 10, 1999. The Jungle series, released a few months before Fossil, is comprised of 64 cards. Following in the footsteps of the 1999 Pokémon Jungle series, Fossil offers rare holographic cards (#1 to #15), as well as a second subseries featuring the same Pokémon in non-holographic form (#16 to #30).